The Murders of Giti Harari & Wendy Aldrich Part Two
Gone Cold - Texas True Crime
Vincent Strange
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
But Wendy wasn’t the only one watching.
Giti’s husband, Behrooz Juneghani, became convinced Wendy was responsible for the murder. He secretly monitored her visits, planted recording devices at the gravesite, and even hired a private investigator to get close to her, none of it producing evidence, but all of it adding tension to an already fractured story.
Then, on July 31, 1988, Wendy disappeared.
She was last seen buying flowers and a balloon before heading to Giti’s grave. She never returned home. Days later, her car was found abandoned more than 100 miles away at Lake Livingston State Park, her belongings still inside, but no sign of Wendy.
What followed only deepened the mystery.
Strange phone calls to her apartment. Accusations without evidence. A growing list of unanswered questions.
Nearly two months later, partial remains discovered at Lake Somerville were believed to be Wendy’s. Without a full body, investigators could not determine how she died, leaving her case, like Giti’s, without resolution.
Two women. Close friends. Killed within months of each other.
And decades later, no clear answers tying their deaths together, or separating them.
Their stories remain linked not by proof, but by the same unresolved question: what really happened in the summer of 1988?
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| 0:00.0 | Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:09.2 | G.D. Hariri's May 11, 1988 murder, rippled across Houston, Texas. A young woman, working alone |
| 0:18.1 | in a model home on the edge of a growing subdivision, attacked in the final |
| 0:22.7 | moments of her workday. There was no forced entry, no clear robbery, no witnesses, just a controlled |
| 0:30.8 | scene, a missing purse, and a life cut short in a place designed to feel safe. |
| 0:44.4 | Investigators worked the case, compared it, and then, like so many others in that decade, |
| 0:48.0 | set it aside as its own isolated crime. |
| 0:52.0 | But for one person, it was anything but isolated. |
| 0:59.5 | For nearly a decade, Gede and Wendy Aldrich had moved through life side by side, |
| 1:04.9 | college roommates, close friends, and constants in each other's worlds. |
| 1:09.1 | When Gidi was killed, Wendy didn't just lose a friend. |
| 1:14.9 | She lost something foundational. The grief didn't fade. It deepened. |
| 1:22.5 | Wendy went to the funeral. She placed a poem in Gidi's casket. She returned again and again, |
| 1:29.6 | to the model home, to the grave. She tried to make sense of something that didn't make sense, and in the weeks that followed, that grief began to pull her somewhere else. It pulled her toward a second |
| 1:35.8 | story, one that would not end with mourning, but with another disappearance, and another body, |
| 1:43.1 | because before the decade was over, |
| 1:45.7 | Wendy Aldrich's life, like her closest friend Gide's, would end in tragedy. |
| 2:25.9 | Music When Wendy Aldrich placed flowers at Gidi Hariri's grave, someone would promptly remove them. |
| 2:33.7 | It happened with everything she left in tribute to her friend, candles, balloons, and other items. Though it was strange, she just figured groundskeepers |
| 2:37.8 | were removing them. What she didn't know was that her visits to the gravesite were not going |
| 2:44.3 | unnoticed, and suspicion of her was mounting. Gidi's husband, Beru's Junagani, had become convinced that Wendy somehow |
| 2:54.4 | knew more about his wife's death than she had told investigators. In his mind, the explanation |
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